Tournament Strategy Questions For Me

[David Sklansky]

Short and sweet ones with widespread interest are the most likely to be answered. Some will be answered on this thread. The best I will reprint on a new thread.

[yukoncpa]

Regarding the concept of additional chips going down in value.
Lets say you are a very good tournament player but not as good as perhaps Chris Fergusen, etc. It is the very first hand of a large buy in, fairly fast moving tournament and the action is folded to you on the little blind. You have AJ and happen to see the big blinds hand which has KT and you know the player well enough that you know for a fact he will call all his chips if you push all your chips. Ignoring that other strategies may very well be better ( also ignoring for now that pushing half then the rest when the flop comes may be better ) , should you push your chips? Does it make a difference if your opponent has KQ or T9?
Thanks

[NewTeaBag]

Mid sized buyin tournament (~$1K).

Half field gone.
9 handed tbl with BB representing 5% AVG stack

My stack is slightly above AVG.
I am known at the table as probably best or near enough player at the table.

Hijack has AVG stack.
Hijack is 2nd best player with decent reading ability and decision making skills.

I'm BB with JJ.
Table fold to Hijack who raises to 4XBB. 3folds.

Strategically speaking:
My near "Eureka" read is he has AK (assume this read is correct)

What %time do you advocate
Allin
Other Reraise
Call.

How does this decision relate to your overall tournament strategy? Coinflippin/dbling up/overall tournament EQ

Does it matter if it's a $10K or $100 buyin?

[David Sklansky]

Yes of course

[stakman1011]

I mostly lurk and read but this one I'm curious about.

In watching the replay of the 50K buyin HORSE tourney I got to thinking...

Take an average person off the street that is of average intelligence but unfamiliar with poker. You get 20 minutes to teach them how to play. Now enter them in the WSOP Main Event and the HORSE event...to simplify the math assume an 8000 player field for the ME and a 150 player field for the HORSE event.

Which event would he/she have a better chance of winning? Cashing?

What about if you got 6 hours to teach them? A week?

[aaronbeen]

This is not a short question but if you answer it I'm sure there will be widespread interest. I'd even buy a book. What I'm looking for is an approximation of ICM for MTTs. I'd like a formula, algorithm, or even computer program that would take the number of players remaining in a tournament, the payout structure, and a chip stack and give an approximate dollar value of that chip stack. You could start with the standard payout structure for say WPTs or pokerstars tournaments.

[bsheck]

First level of a major tournament with typical players. You have stated that you should play a lot of pots early on, as long as you can get in cheaply. Would your preflop strategy be much different than the one laid out in NLHTAP? More specifically, would you still play tightly from the blinds if the pot has been raised in front of you?

[almostbusto]

simply put: in a satellite tournament where 5 to 10% of the field win 1st prize, when should one rebuy/add on? are there times when a good player shouldn't be willing to rebuy or addon?


i know always rebuying and adding on at every oppurtunity is ideal for normal tournaments, but in those tournaments there is a hefty premium for finishing in first. whereas in satellite you are just trying to cash.

[David Sklansky]

The bigger your stack the more likely that an add on is wrong. Even in normal tournaments. Rebuys are alway right if you play well.

[David Sklansky]

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I mostly lurk and read but this one I'm curious about.

In watching the replay of the 50K buyin HORSE tourney I got to thinking...

Take an average person off the street that is of average intelligence but unfamiliar with poker. You get 20 minutes to teach them how to play. Now enter them in the WSOP Main Event and the HORSE event...to simplify the math assume an 8000 player field for the ME and a 150 player field for the HORSE event.

Which event would he/she have a better chance of winning? Cashing?

What about if you got 6 hours to teach them? A week?


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In all cases the best chance would occur in NL holdem. In spite of the great difference in the number of entrants.